April 12- Video

[ritsu_kouyou]

I'm sure we all have a 'bucket' list of things we'd like to do sometime in our lives before we die. This place certainly gives us opportunities to cross items off it, such as getting to visit other continents.

On the other hand, it also presents us with things we'd never believed would ever happen to us - the whole manner of our arrival and subsequent submersion into this war aside.

[Akiha is back from her mission in Brazil and she's not terribly happy with how it went.]

For example, I can now claim that I have been eaten by a giant slug. Allow me to cross that off my list. I've always wanted to have to kill something while inside its stomach and then cut my way out. [/sarcasm]

That said, can anyone recommend a hair stylist here? I need to take a few inches off thanks to stomach acid. [Or whatever it was.]

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[ ᴛᴇxᴛ ]

[3rdbest]

Sarcasm aside, that sounds like a good story to tell your kids, and I'm not even kidding.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

I suppose there is some merit in that if I ever feel like relaying my 'adventures' to them.

If.

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[3rdbest]

Not many people have the chance to talk about how they were swallowed by a slug.

I imagine it also works as a good ice-breaker.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Not in polite company. I certainly can't open a business meeting with that.

"Let us all take a moment before discussing the upcoming fiscal year and planning the budget to talk about what we did over vacation. Allow me to start. When I was visiting Brazil, I discovered exactly how slimy the inside lining of a giant slug's stomach is."

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[3rdbest]

Hey.

I would make business with anyone who started a business meeting like this.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

If only middle-aged Japanese business men were like you.

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[3rdbest]

The world would be an amazing place.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

We all have unattainable dreams.

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[3rdbest]

It breaks my heart.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Surely there is a way to mend it. At least temporarily. Such a sad state to be in, weeping over a pipe dream.

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[3rdbest]

First world problems.

I only need a straw and I will suck it up. Or a bridge, to get over it.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Nicely done.

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[3rdbest]

Yeah, I'm pretty proud of myself.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

What's your name? I'm Tohno Akiha.

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[3rdbest]

Matt.

Nice to meetcha.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

Just Matt? No family name?

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[3rdbest]

If it's really that necessary. Black. Matt Black.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

It is only proper to use your family name unless you've been removed from the registry.

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[3rdbest]

Yet you are not going to call me by my family name.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

I could. We aren't on friendly enough terms for me to be using your given name. But I suppose I can make an exception for you.

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[3rdbest]

See?

I like people addressing me when talking to me. Not my family.

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[ritsu_kouyou]

[Akiha could argue that people were their family, but Matt came across to her as American, so the argument would be lost on him.]

It's less that than a matter of familiarity. Cultural differences, it seems.

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[3rdbest]

[ rather he is an orphan. And to be honest, "Black" was a lie. ]

Yeah, I've already figured that. Your name is Japanese.